I tried that too, no good (4.2.x, using the directions on the oracle site - these are a little different, so something new to try) but I've not tried every possible combination yet - only about 10 permutations so far (speaking of frustration). When I tried the -proposed, it took the stuff straight from oracle out and substituted 4.1.x during the install process. I'd been doing the straight from oracle thing on 10.04 mostly, but not upgrading everytime it asked, since that was causing my win-7 DRM to kick in (till I got and used a key-cracker). That stank as I've paid for win7 twice and couldn't even run it at all after I upgraded VB - it detected a "hardware change" on the upgrade and decided I'd stolen it. So now I AM running a stolen iso with a key cracker, once, to get what I paid for twice, on the 5-6 machines that *do not* run 12.04. Last night the 12,.04 machine grabbed a new kernal, so now I get to try all this again I suppose, but for now - it still does not work and even crashes linux back to bios, with the usual bad effects on things like mail and web program context for unexpected crashes (my own running code doesn't have issues with sudden crashes since I wrote it with that expectation, it's an edge case that gets hit here due to arcs in nearby HV supplies). Ugh. To clarify - the other above suggestions did let me install VB "at all", and import an image - but all images crash during boot, before the main screen shows up, usually. I once had win7 show me the login, but logging in - boom, it crashed, then linux went down. Could it matter that since I have plenty ram (8g) for what I use this for, I didn't put in a swap partition? I've never had an issue with that before, other than the linux install kinda whining when I don't. Since I'm running a combo of SSD and spinner - I put / on the SSD, but /home and /tmp on a spinner to prolong SSD life. Doug On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Tim Edwards